Tag: Auckland University of Technology
Asia Pacific Report freshened with new student roles, independent journalism
JEANZ News
Professor David Robie, founding director of the AUT Pacific Media Centre, has relaunched Asia Pacific Report as an independent Pacific affairs and analysis...
Gavin Ellis: The Pacific Media Centre must break free to survive
THE KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis
For many years I thought universities were the ideal place to establish centres of investigative journalism excellence. Now I’m...
Listen to the Pacific people plea to AUT over diversity future...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
A retired university professor and a Tahitian doctoral candidate have appealed to Auckland University of Technology to “listen” to the Asia-Pacific...
Outcry over signs of upheaval at Pacific Media Centre
Auckland University of Technology has denied claims that the Pacific Media Centre is being dumped or sidelined.
The centre's recently retired director Professor David Robie...
Call for AUT vice-chancellor to resign after scathing report into bullying
By RNZ News
A senior academic staff member at the Auckland University of Technology wants the vice-chancellor to resign following a scathing report into bullying.
The...
Gallery: PMC celebrates Pacific ‘reset’ vision and farewells founding director
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk
Pacific Media Centre students, staff and journalists gathered at Auckland University of Technology this week and debated reset strategies for the...
NZ covid minister Hipkins announces no lockdown over community case
By RNZ News
Minister of Covid-19 Response Chris Hipkins says he is hopeful a lockdown can be avoided in New Zealand's largest city after a...
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues profiled in new publication
By Michael Andrew
Six years of diverse Pacific research by Auckland University of Technology staff and students has been profiled in a new publication.
Presented by...
Times global university sustainability index ranks ‘creative’ AUT 16th
AUT is a strategic partner for New Zealand's Techweek19 programme next month, on May 20-26, and the only NZ university taking part. Dr Roseanne...
AUT students: ‘We want to stay as a country, unified, always’
By Michael Andrew
Muslim students at Auckland University of Technology have praised the gestures of kindness they have received from fellow students and the New...
Nuku’alofa Film Festival launches with documentary dedicated to leiti struggle
By Blessen Tom in Nuku'alofa
Leitis in Waiting, a feature documentary, launched the fourth Nuku'alofa International Film Festival 2018 at the Digicel Square in Nuku'alofa,...
Contribution by Pacific community more than money, says academic
By Rahul Bhattarai
The Pacific community has contributed immensely to New Zealand's economy - but that isn't the only contribution, says a leading development studies...
Telling the real stories behind ‘plastic’ Pacific islanders and stereotypes
A look at the lives of Pacific Islanders who choose to ignore or struggle to embrace their heritage. Video: Plastic Polynesia trailer
By Leilani Sitagata
Two...
Refugee, migrant culinary delights boost new diversity cookbook
By Rahul Bhattarai
Students and staff gathered in Auckland last night to launch a cookbook with a difference celebrating culinary delights from refugee or immigrant...
Flavourz film festival wows audience with ethnicity, pollution, fun films
Banabans of Rabi: A Story of Survival - the trailer.
By Rahul Bhattarai
Nine years on the popular Flavourz Film Festival has grown and grown...
Student journalists gear up for Fiji election press, online coverage
By Kaelyn Dekarube in Suva
As part of their coverage of the 2018 Fiji general election this month, University of the South Pacific student journalists...
AUT staff withhold marks in strike for better pay and living...
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Union members at Auckland University of Technology are withholding marks for two weeks after voting overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike...
‘Do your job without fear or favour’, says veteran former Fiji...
By Chris Ha'arabe of Wansolwara News
Fiji-born veteran journalist Sri Krishnamurthi has some simple advice for aspiring journalists – “Do your job without fear or...
Lifetime of devotion to Māori and Pacific student success
PROFILE: By Leilani Sitagata
Educator and kuia Tui O’Sullivan has recently retired from Auckland University of Technology after close to 40 years of service.
Born and...
Bearing Witness students win big at AUT communication studies awards
By Jean Bell in Auckland
Bearing Witness climate change project students won big last night at the annual awards ceremony for AUT's School of Communication...
Gallery: Pacific colour and style spice-up AUT communication studies awards
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Colourful Pacific scenes from the AUT School of Communication Studies annual media awards at the Sir Paul Reeves Building communications precinct...
Top award for Māori, Treaty and colonial historian with new focus
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
One of New Zealand's best-selling and most-respected historians and social commentators, Professor Paul Moon, has been acknowledged for his contributions as...